All Discussions Tagged 'distro' - We Make Zines2016-12-10T01:54:46Zhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=distro&feed=yes&xn_auth=noStarting a zine distrotag:wemakezines.ning.com,2014-09-28:2288844:Topic:4099792014-09-28T03:55:04.548ZSamantha Rieglhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/SamanthaRiegl
<p>Hi everyone!</p>
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<p>This is my first post on WMZ so hello! As the title says I'd like some information on starting a zine distro! I know there are a few discussions on here about that but they don't seem to progress more than a handful of comments.</p>
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<p>I'm thinking I'd be running distro primarily online out of my spare room and maybe having a stall at a few zine fairs. I'm already planning on approaching zinesters that I love to stock their zines with me so it will be a…</p>
<p>Hi everyone!</p>
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<p>This is my first post on WMZ so hello! As the title says I'd like some information on starting a zine distro! I know there are a few discussions on here about that but they don't seem to progress more than a handful of comments.</p>
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<p>I'm thinking I'd be running distro primarily online out of my spare room and maybe having a stall at a few zine fairs. I'm already planning on approaching zinesters that I love to stock their zines with me so it will be a reflection and collection of my favourite zines.</p>
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<p>Questions I'd want to ask are:</p>
<p>- What's the best site to do this through? Who's used what and what did you think worked best?</p>
<p>- Postage: how much do you think is reasonable to add on to cover the costs of envelopes, wrapping, time, etc.?</p>
<p>- 20% commission seems to be the normal going rate, is that reasonable?</p>
<p>- Consignment VS. paying up front for stock? I'd be willing to purchase small runs of the zines up front initially to ensure zinester peace of mind. </p>
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<p>Thanks so much in advance guys. I'm looking forward to hearing your ideas. x</p> Looking for Zine Distros.tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-07-04:2288844:Topic:3638472013-07-04T01:31:49.639ZGloria Guadalupehttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/GloriaGuadalupe
<p>Please feel free to add the name of your Zine Distro.</p>
<p>This will help a lot of us out today!</p>
<p>Please feel free to add the name of your Zine Distro.</p>
<p>This will help a lot of us out today!</p> Shipping Buttons--- How to make shipping cheaper...tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-04-20:2288844:Topic:3568592013-04-20T21:20:32.500Zzeraph dylanhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/alchemistscloset
<p>Hi! I run The <a href="http://alchemistscloset.org/" target="_blank">Alchemist's Closet zine distro</a> and sell on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/112375345/genderqueer-button" target="_blank">Etsy</a> and on my own website. I am US based.</p>
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<p>I sell a number of pinback buttons, the most popular being the 'Genderqueer' button. Recently I realized that for shipping to certain addresses, it's possible for me to lose money on selling this button-- It's $1.25 for the button and…</p>
<p>Hi! I run The <a href="http://alchemistscloset.org/" target="_blank">Alchemist's Closet zine distro</a> and sell on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/112375345/genderqueer-button" target="_blank">Etsy</a> and on my own website. I am US based.</p>
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<p>I sell a number of pinback buttons, the most popular being the 'Genderqueer' button. Recently I realized that for shipping to certain addresses, it's possible for me to lose money on selling this button-- It's $1.25 for the button and then I add on 0.50 for shipping in the US (I just increased it to $1). And shipping the button can be like $2.10 sometimes at the post office's lowest rate.</p>
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<p>Buttons are small, and cheap, and weigh NEXT TO NOTHING. Yet they insist on being expensive to ship. How can I strike a good balance for shipping buttons? How do you package a button to make it ship more cheaply?</p>
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<p>Is it reasonable to ask someone pay a total of $2.25 or more for a 1 1/4" pinback button-- because that's what it costs just to ship it?</p>
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<p>The biggest problem I can see is that the button needs (I think) padding, which makes it too thick to be "machinable" and therefore increases the price way beyond what it would be for a similar weigh object that is flat.</p>
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<p>Suggestions??</p> Fall of Autumn distrotag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-01-06:2288844:Topic:3452752013-01-06T17:42:18.457ZSid Clarkhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/SidClark
<p>Anybody know what's happening with these guys? Their site seems to be up. I can't tell when the last post was on their blog, nothing's dated.</p>
<p>They still owe me $6.35 for zines not delivered. I've emailed and snail mailed more than once, never got a single reply. This was for an order back in the late spring of '11. Summer of '11 was a real bummer, zine-wise, no zines from Gigglebot, Fall of Autumn or Microcosm. Microcosm was, I found out later, moving it's distro from Indian to Kansas…</p>
<p>Anybody know what's happening with these guys? Their site seems to be up. I can't tell when the last post was on their blog, nothing's dated.</p>
<p>They still owe me $6.35 for zines not delivered. I've emailed and snail mailed more than once, never got a single reply. This was for an order back in the late spring of '11. Summer of '11 was a real bummer, zine-wise, no zines from Gigglebot, Fall of Autumn or Microcosm. Microcosm was, I found out later, moving it's distro from Indian to Kansas and I eventually got one of the zines I ordered after waiting 4 months.</p>
<p>All this has made me pretty fed up with zines in general, and distros in particular.</p>
<p>"Old Weird America" was the main zine I was looking for and I finally got one issue. It was alright. I guess the author had some luck getting her stuff published in mainstream publications, too. My best memory of it was when she asked a high-powered wall-street guy she had met while working her sleazy stripper peep-show job, she asked him what cologne he was wearing and he said, "just cigarettes and sweat, baby". I actually exchanged a couple emails with the author and she offered to send me a copy of the zine. I gave her my address and never heard from her again. Rose White is her non-de-plume, I guess. Don't know if she ever put out any more zines. Doesn't really matter.</p> A discussion we need to have about Bird In The Hand Zine Distrotag:wemakezines.ning.com,2012-02-17:2288844:Topic:3074362012-02-17T09:14:22.144ZSticky Institutehttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/StickyInstitute
<p id="yui_3_2_0_14_1329468350237176" style="right: auto;">Over the past few months I have been to three zine fairs. The first was the Impact7 zine fair at Monash University in Melbourne, the second was the This Is Not Art Zine Fair in Newcastle and the third was The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair at the Melbourne town hall. At all three zine fairs there was formal discussion about what has happened to Bird In The Hand Zine Distro, has the distro closed and how are all the zinesters…</p>
<p style="right: auto;" id="yui_3_2_0_14_1329468350237176">Over the past few months I have been to three zine fairs. The first was the Impact7 zine fair at Monash University in Melbourne, the second was the This Is Not Art Zine Fair in Newcastle and the third was The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair at the Melbourne town hall. At all three zine fairs there was formal discussion about what has happened to Bird In The Hand Zine Distro, has the distro closed and how are all the zinesters owed money by the distro going to be paid? The suggestion in formal discussion at the Distro Discussion at The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair last weekend was that Bird In The Hand Zine Distro closed somewhere between twelve and eighteen months ago but there has been no formal comment from Susy Pow who runs/ran the disro. Angry participants in the discussion said they had sent zines to the distro as recently as last week, having assumed the distro was still active after looking at the Bird In The Hand Zine Distro website. Over the past few years I have stocked my zines with Bird In The Hand and enjoyed the distro immensely. The current situation is unacceptable. As well as stocking my zines with distro I have personally recommended the distro to as many people who would listen. I want to publicly plead with Susy Pow and Bird In The Hand Zine Distro to make a formal public comment about the current state of the distro. I have three questions I would like her to address:</p>
<p style="right: auto;" id="yui_3_2_0_14_13294683502374436">1. Has Bird In The Hand Zine Distro closed?</p>
<p style="right: auto;" id="yui_3_2_0_14_13294683502374564">2. If it has closed when did the distro close?</p>
<p style="right: auto;" id="yui_3_2_0_14_13294683502374686">3. If the distro has closed then when will all the zinesters owed money for their zines be paid?</p>
<p style="right: auto;" id="yui_3_2_0_14_13294683502374982">I hate having to act like the zine police and find this really uncomfortable but I think the situation is unacceptable. At Sticky we have been receiving emails for weeks from zinesters who stocked their zines with Bird In The Hand asking what is going on. I ask Susy Pow to start providing answers. It is hard enough trying to get over-seas zinesters to mail their zines over to Australia without our distro's getting the reputation of being unreliable.</p>
<p style="right: auto;" id="yui_3_2_0_14_13294683502376211">Luke Sinclair/Sticky Institute.</p> Zine Promotion on Twittertag:wemakezines.ning.com,2011-07-08:2288844:Topic:2469212011-07-08T01:27:16.460ZJoe Wallacehttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/JoeWallace
<p>Hi all, it's been ages since I de-lurked (did I ever?) but I wanted to drop a line about a Twitter zine promotion project I've set up. It's at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.Twitter.com/zinenews">www.Twitter.com/zinenews</a></p>
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<p>It basically pushes out new zine info via RSS feeds. I've got about a dozen zines (none of them mine or connected to me so far) pushing out Twitter messages whenever the zine publishers add new titles to their Etsy stores or update their…</p>
<p>Hi all, it's been ages since I de-lurked (did I ever?) but I wanted to drop a line about a Twitter zine promotion project I've set up. It's at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.Twitter.com/zinenews">www.Twitter.com/zinenews</a></p>
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<p>It basically pushes out new zine info via RSS feeds. I've got about a dozen zines (none of them mine or connected to me so far) pushing out Twitter messages whenever the zine publishers add new titles to their Etsy stores or update their websites.</p>
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<p>I would be very happy to add your zine or zine-themed etsy shop to the mix--drop me a message to my We Make Zines inbox with the following information:</p>
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<p>Your zine or etsy store webaddress</p>
<p>a little bit about your zine, whether you accept trades, do distro, etc and your zine mailing address</p>
<p>and MOST IMPORTANTLY:</p>
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<p>The RSS feed address for your zine site or etsy shop. I can't add you to the ZineNews twitter feed without this address.</p>
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<p>I'm getting ready to publish two new zine titles and will no doubt be flooding zinenews with sporadic shameless self-promotion, but 99% of the updates are other zine publishers/writers new titles or updates.</p>
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<p>I'd love to include you!</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Joe Wallace</p>
<p>IamJoeWallace.com</p>
<p>Turntabling.net</p>
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<p>This is a small community, so I want to get some opinions on this.</p>
<p>There is a member of this community (on WMZ) who runs a distro. I ordered some stuff from her. I didn't get it, so I wrote to her--twice. She wrote back to me saying, "Sorry, I'll put it in the mail tomorrow." I never got anything, so I wrote again. And again. And again. She completely ignored me, and was clearly lying about sending the order. So I had to open a Pay Pal dispute, and then she *lied to PayPal*…</p>
<p>This is a small community, so I want to get some opinions on this.</p>
<p>There is a member of this community (on WMZ) who runs a distro. I ordered some stuff from her. I didn't get it, so I wrote to her--twice. She wrote back to me saying, "Sorry, I'll put it in the mail tomorrow." I never got anything, so I wrote again. And again. And again. She completely ignored me, and was clearly lying about sending the order. So I had to open a Pay Pal dispute, and then she *lied to PayPal* about sending my order. I never received anything.</p>
<p>Today, the Pay Pal dispute was resolved in my favor. I am debating outing this girl and her distro. I think in the interest of protecting the zine community, you should know this girl and her distro so you won't get stuck in the same situation I was in. However, this is a small community, so I wanted to get opinions on this.</p>
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<p>Do you want to know which distro/member scammed me?</p> looking for well established zine distrostag:wemakezines.ning.com,2010-05-14:2288844:Topic:1351772010-05-14T18:15:22.185ZJennyTheArtisthttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/JennyArchibald
<p>for the 1st time, i am looking to submit some of my zines to a zine distro.</p>
<p>i'm looking for 3 or 4 distros that are well established and popular &amp; don't know where to start. </p>
<p>Any info and a link will be most helpful</p>
<p>thanks!!</p>
<p>for the 1st time, i am looking to submit some of my zines to a zine distro.</p>
<p>i'm looking for 3 or 4 distros that are well established and popular &amp; don't know where to start. </p>
<p>Any info and a link will be most helpful</p>
<p>thanks!!</p> Brutarian Wants Zinestag:wemakezines.ning.com,2010-05-02:2288844:Topic:1333072010-05-02T12:50:48.324ZJeff Somershttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/JeffSomers
Y'all,<br></br><br></br>Just heard from Dominick Salemi who publishes Brutarian Magazine that he's starting up a print-zine distro. Dom's an old supporter of zines and he's been putting out Brutarian for thousands of years. I'm sending him 20 issues of The Inner Swine's next issue on 50/50 consignment, but I suspect Dom's easy to negotiate terms with if that doesn't suit you.<br></br><br></br>I've never distroed with Dom before, but he has bought stories from me and pays me for a regular column, and he always…
Y'all,<br/><br/>Just heard from Dominick Salemi who publishes Brutarian Magazine that he's starting up a print-zine distro. Dom's an old supporter of zines and he's been putting out Brutarian for thousands of years. I'm sending him 20 issues of The Inner Swine's next issue on 50/50 consignment, but I suspect Dom's easy to negotiate terms with if that doesn't suit you.<br/><br/>I've never distroed with Dom before, but he has bought stories from me and pays me for a regular column, and he always pays. Sometimes he's a little forgetful, but he always comes through.<br/><br/>So, anyway, here're his contact details if anyone's interested:<br/><br/>
Dom Salemi<br/>Brutarian Magazine<br/>Box 234<br/>Burke, VA 22009<br/>
brutarian@gmail.com<br/><br/>If anyone has any questions about my experience with Brutarian, feel free to post here or email me (mreditor@innerswine.com). Please note though that I DO NOT represent Dom or Brutarian and any questions about how he's going to run the distro should be directed to Dom. He just asked mt to spread the word for him, so I'm doing so.<br/><br/>best<br/>Jeff<br/> Any success with flyers?tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2010-04-30:2288844:Topic:1331372010-04-30T17:55:31.404ZBrittneyhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Brittney
I just had a quick question. Has anyone had any success with flyers?<br />
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Would anyone like to trade flyers?
I just had a quick question. Has anyone had any success with flyers?<br />
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Would anyone like to trade flyers?